Word: slide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Erstwhile math whizzes who think the CRIMSON has erred are wron. A Jump from 55 per cent to 60 per cent is (approximately) a 10 per cent increase. You can work it out on your own electric slide rule: the five percentage point rise divided by the old figure of 55 per cent equals the per cent of increase, namely 090909...or roughly 10 per cent...
...case is overstated and vastly oversimplified. Eastern knavery and Western gullibility are not the only reasons for U.S. difficulties in Asia. There is a growing number of ugly (and not so ugly) Americans working to good purpose, and the trail of U.S. foreign policy is not just a downhill slide. Lederer's solution-study foreign affairs, pester your Congressman-is also unexceptionable...
...self-determination (Katanga is not a nation, and its people probably understand little about their real situation), or Tshombe's antiCommunism. As a fact of history, the Congo exists, and it depends on mineral-rich Katanga for economic survival. Without Katanga the rest of the Congo may well slide into chaos and possibly Communism. Privately, many in Britain and France-and some observers in the U.S.-are willing to let this happen, and retain Katanga as the one viable part of the Congo...
Through the Roof. By early 1962, Labor Department experts predict, the unemployment rate may well slide below 5%. A major factor in creating more jobs should be the new vigor displayed by the construction business, which now accounts for one-ninth of the gross national product. Spending on new construction of all kinds has risen more than 40% from the recession's depths last February, is expected to hit $57 billion this year and $60 billion next year...
...with a Slide Rule. So many variables would appall most executives, but they fail to dismay North American's tense, wiry President John Leland ("Lee") Atwood, 57. An oldtime aeronautical engineer who began his career as a designer at Douglas Aircraft and still keeps a slide rule on his desk, Atwood came to North American with bluff Chairman James H. ("Dutch") Kindelberger in 1934. The man primarily responsible for North American's diversification, Atwood prides himself on the fact that the company is now so broadly based that such setbacks as the washout of the 6-70 program...